I just finished doing some network tracing and found out a couple of things I was not aware I should do in order to send/receive with my netscape mail service.
In my case, I am behind a router/firewall, and as per standard service port definitions I had activated rules to let traffic for the standard services (pop,imap,news, and ssl[news&mail]) within my local NAT. However, through some digging around as to how NS6.1 attemps to connect to the Webmail service, I discovered I needed to allow traffic to flow through ports 5000 (for smtp.netscape.net authentication) and 5005 (for imap.mail.netcenter.com authentication) within my NAT as well. I guess Netscape/AOL uses a proprietary form of authenticating users, and after I allowed traffic through both ports my webmail works like a charm. . . I did not see any info on this anywhere, and that is why I am posting it here so that this information could possibly help others who might be scratching their heads with connection failures like I had. Hope this helps someone. ;^) Late Douglas Bonneville wrote: > The netscape mail account I have used for sometime now says "cannot > connect to server" using 6.1 mail client - now I can't see the folders > either. But the mail is all there in the webmail interface. How can I > get my mail using the 6.1 client?? I also set up a 6.1 access for my > other netscape account and it works. Why can I get to it via browser but > not client? > > Doug Bonneville > Senior Designer > AOL Web Properties >
